Any help with picking POSIX file to display

Question

So I ran this script to read out a text file
set examplefile to {}
set linesf to paragraphs of (read POSIX file (choose file))
repeat with nextline in linesf
          if length of nextline > 0 then
                    copy nextline to the end of linesf
          end if
end repeat
set textfileread to result
display alert textfileread
But I get this error
error "Can’t make POSIX file (alias \"Macintosh HD:Users:Stephen:Desktop:encrypt.txt\") into type file." number -1700 from POSIX file (alias "Macintosh HD:Users:Stephen:Desktop:encrypt.txt") to file
Any Ideas on how I can fix this problem?

Answer 1

Use:
set linesf to paragraphs of (read (choose file))
You don't need to get the POSIX path of something if you're not going to use it in a do shell script command.
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